Matthew Battles
Editor of ARNOLDIA, a magazine about the nature of trees, published by the Arnold Arboretum. Author of LIBRARY: AN UNQUIET HISTORY, TREE, & other books. Making music from old poems and the press of wild things. Posts are my own.
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@brianthill.bsky.social
Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD from UCI | Writer @ The Atlantic, Guardian, Salon, UMinn Press &c. | Just finished writing a novel; now writing a better one
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
@ssacks.bsky.social
Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. In Nashville. Wrote a book-and-a-half on Belfast & one on the Kinks. Latest is John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday
@jonathanslaght.com
RegionalDirector, Temperate Asia, WCS (China/Mongolia/Russia/CentAsia/Afghanistan). Wrote Owls of the Eastern Ice (FSG, 2020): Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PENAmerica winner, Nat.BookAward longlist. New book: TIGERS (11/25). Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
@hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Haleakala Observatory/NASA T4 Laser Ranging Project (skeets/opinions mine) Photographer/Astrophotographer, birder, conservationist, SCUBA diver, Zen philosopher-idiot. Shoots a big laser at satellites for a living. : ) https://www.myhawaiianimages.com
@evaholland.bsky.social
Yukoner * freelance writer * book author * devoted servant to a retired sled dog
@luxtheatrum.bsky.social
Theatrical designer / director / storyteller. Astrophysics enthusiast. Recovering Artistic Director. I want to design all the plays. (Except Mamet & LaBute.) he/him also: @[email protected] | hungerf9 @ bird site. https://andrewhungerford.com
@amandafrench.net
PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @researchorgs.bsky.social at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. https://amandafrench.net
@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
Book: The Pacific Circuit Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum Life: Oakland Garden Club
@wynkenhimself.bsky.social
feminist bibliography, old books, and mutual aid // I wrote Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide, I edit The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and sometimes I play with wallpaper designs // sarahwerner.net
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@navneetalang.com
Editor on the Opinion team at the Toronto Star. Pitch me op-eds, essays at [email protected]. Writer and former columnist with bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
@justinellis.bsky.social
“God, are we doin this again” Projects & Podcast editor for Defector.com
@clivethompson.bsky.social
Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Journalist with Wired / New York Times Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Built https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me
@miriamposner.com
Assoc. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@maggiek.bsky.social
Editorial Lead at CarbonPlan. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15. Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc. My views are not my employer's.
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
Books! Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and a Nabokov bio. Former painter, translator, karateka, and record store clerk. Subscribe to my newsletter and podcast: www.andreapitzer.com
@craigmod.com
Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years. Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!! shop.specialprojects.jp craigmod.com
@dansinker.com
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
@joshuabenton.com
21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
@lauraolin.bsky.social
the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Founding executive editor of Heatmap News. Contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
@msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday www.heydaybooks.com
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
@grau-chris.bsky.social
emeritus prof, bill enroller, photographer of critters. juneau, alaska. https://linktr.ee/christopher.grau?
@ssparks.bsky.social
“To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history. New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th
@historicdogwalks.bsky.social
Charismatic weeds can teach us a lot about building a better world. Most of the botanical discourse is just PR for empire and a self-soothing grift that makes everything worse. We can have nice things. https://www.ecoreparation.com
@sew.bsky.social
maker of things, designer of experiences, science and tech researcher, collaborator. working on increasing collective survivability. (tinkerkid in other spaces)
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director ✨💻🏳️🌈 just+joyful critical tech+culture *SJ+experimental/DH+library futures+community *DIY scholcom=book art/zine/blog/code *Bookadjacent data+making Enthusiast (3 !s in a hoodie); abolitionist Dr! (ex-TT) 🏳️⚧️They/Them AmandaVisconti.com
@amandamakepeace.bsky.social
Pencil artist of nature, magic and lore. Book lover, horror fan, rock collector, naturalist, photographer. If I'm not in the studio I might be wandering in the woods. 🪶| Demi | she/her ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᎧᏂᎯᏍᏗ ᏕᎦᏕᎶᏆᎠ https://amandamakepeace.com/more
@contingent-mag.bsky.social
History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@kstackwhitney.bsky.social
STS / enviro studies prof, on unceded Seneca lands. mostly thinking with insects and about ableism in biology. own views, etc. she/they
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
Historian of 20th-century political activism; writes/rants about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; live on Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö. http://www.emmalundin.co.uk https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
@ramya.bsky.social
Historian. Dams, dredging, borderlands, rivers. Single Parent. Survivor of domestic abuse. Ready for adventure, not B.S. www.riverborders.com
@lillytypes.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Essays in River Teeth, Southern Review, Tahoma Literary Review, North American Review, and Colorado Review. I write about knowledge and inheritance; motherhood and daughterhood; language and refugee life.